Idea has been sitting in my head for months and months. CoH impending shutdown lit the fire for me to finish it All I knew was that it had to get done before the game died.

The Hour Thief and the Devil's Doctor, Edmund Templeton and Istvan Czernin, square off against the Talons of Vengeance in Dark Astoria. There are few things that Edmund likes less than Talons, and if he didn't have Istvan there to act as a buffer against Mot's aura of despair he'd probably be pretty screwed.

Sai and Photoshop, with protagonists and some Talons sketched out on paper first.

A few days, and that's despite cheating to make a lot of it faster and easier (all but two of the bird/snake/monster ladies are traced from game screenshots, as is the background). I want to say three to five days, with about three hours of work each day, but I have a downright awful sense of time, and it's hard to remember anyway after two months.

Damn, this is pretty awesome. Especially that fire. Love how the lighter spots (lightning, fire, ice(?), fire again, glowing eye, ghosty guy, glint on green snake-lady's weapons, highlights on the bird feet) lead the eye all around the picture.